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skull_bearer) wrote2010-12-07 05:57 pm
skull_bearer) wrote2010-12-07 05:57 pm
Wow
I saw this article in the Metro today, and my jaw just dropped.
Now, you all know I'm not a massive fan of religion. In fact, I'm not a fan at all, but this goes beyond even what I find acceptable and goes straight into 'oh wait, hang on now'.
It might be because I've got some pagan friends, and can imagine what their reactions would be at having their religion described as that practised in The Wicker Man. I mean, I love that film, but saying that it's an accurate description of modern pagans is like saying Jude Suss is an accurate portrayl of Jews.
Seriously Metro, wtf? It was on the front page too, I'm looking forward to seeing tomorrow's opinion's page.
Now, you all know I'm not a massive fan of religion. In fact, I'm not a fan at all, but this goes beyond even what I find acceptable and goes straight into 'oh wait, hang on now'.
It might be because I've got some pagan friends, and can imagine what their reactions would be at having their religion described as that practised in The Wicker Man. I mean, I love that film, but saying that it's an accurate description of modern pagans is like saying Jude Suss is an accurate portrayl of Jews.
Seriously Metro, wtf? It was on the front page too, I'm looking forward to seeing tomorrow's opinion's page.
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The only accuracy I can find is that they got the name of a festival mostly right. Everything else, literally every single other thing in the entire piece, was offensive bollocks. It would be like me writing a front-page article about those weird christians who keep idols of a decaying corpse and demand time off work to celebrate his death, and then deciding to just fill the rest of it up with the most random ideas I could come up with.
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It must have been a VERY slow news day.